tory leadership race
Nobody wanted Liz Truss
One of the most important ingredients in the oil used to anoint King Charles during his coronation is becoming a…
Penny reign: why Mordaunt is the kingmaker
Tory MPs will likely have three candidates to vote for in Monday’s leadership race: Boris Johnson, Penny Mordaunt and Rishi…
Will Boris get the numbers he needs?
The question on everyone’s lips tonight is whether Boris Johnson can get 100 MP nominations by Monday. This is the…
Why Liz Truss had to go
The Liz Truss survival plan was, in the end, unworkable. She not only hired her enemies – Grant Shapps and Jeremy…
Ten graphs that Liz Truss can't ignore
The new Prime Minister’s honeymoon starts and ends today. Once Liz Truss formally enters Downing Street tomorrow she will be…
My Ibiza diary
You wait 11 years for a Tory leadership election and then three come along in quick succession. The first in…
‘Those Jedi mind tricks don’t work on me’: Dominic Raab on Truss, Sunak and his own future
Dominic Raab on Truss, Sunak — and whether he will serve under them
Who will fill the Boris void?
Boris Johnson’s last set piece speech today was typical him. There were references to Ladybird books, attempts to blame the…
What the Tory leadership rivals haven’t discussed
In just over a week, Britain will have a new prime minister. No one can say that the 160,000 or…
Who will Liz Truss forgive?
Liz Truss has always been more popular with Tory party members than with Tory politicians. The moment of greatest peril…
Why political interviews matter
She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
The Conservative party is a void
Like the winter of discontent, the summer of 2022 is a season that will burn itself into the national consciousness.…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
Letters: The Tavistock is a national health scandal
The race isn’t run Sir: Bravo Fiona Unwin (‘Rooting for Rishi’, 6 August) for the best piece I have read…
What’s the point of the NHS if it doesn’t work?
We left prepared. Bottles of water, protein snacks, phone chargers, portable Scrabble (even the teenagers can look at the internet…
State-building is a Tory tradition. It’s time to rediscover it
It’s time for some old-fashioned Tory state-building
Letters: How Rishi Sunak could beat the odds
Injured party Sir: Prue Leith’s short interlude as a Conservative party member and subsequent resignation underlines a feature of the…
This is no way to pick a prime minister
‘Truss’s campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister,’ wrote one political commentator this week, ‘seems to have unstoppable momentum. She…
Can Liz Truss be trusted?
Liz Truss has taken the lead in the Tory leadership race with an agenda that seems radical and ambitious, whereas…
How to be PM: ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
Ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
How Rishi Sunak won over the Tories of West Suffolk
How Sunak wowed the Tories of West Suffolk
Why the Tories must face the truth about energy bills
One influential figure on the centre-left told me recently that he isn’t bothered about who wins the Tory leadership contest.…
Portrait of the week: Hosepipe bans, England’s women win the Euros and a strike over dragons
Home BP reported quarterly profits of £6.9 billion, its biggest for 14 years, after oil and gas prices rose steeply.…
Rishi Sunak is not stealing from the poor to give to the rich
Until this morning this had been Rishi Sunak’s week. While Liz Truss found herself trying to talk her way out…
